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Author Topic: Avatar 2009 (plus lots of off-topic, non-review junk) Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 02-07-2010 02:06 AM                        You have to find your way through the settings (which are grouped and very convoluted by default) and find appearance or whatever they call it in Windows land. Maybe theme? Anyway, set your theme to "Classic". Now, the bar on the bottom of the screen will be way too damn thick. Right click it and tell it to use small icons. I think there might even be a way to get the "tabs" back (that are created when you minimize a window) if that sort of thing appeals to you. Chris Duvall could explain how to do it better if he was still around (Regal (unlawfully?) threatens employees who post here so we don't see much of their kind any more except Dennis).  |  IP: Logged John Wilson Film God Posts: 5438 From: Sydney, Australia. Registered: Dec 1999 posted 02-07-2010 02:14 PM                     quote: Paul Mayer Avatar is dead. Long live Avatar. This weekend Dear John has kicked some big blue ass. Well, I suppose it had to go sometime. An estimated 40.3% drop from last Sunday due to some football game ( ) but even without that it wouldn't have saved it from #2 spot. Chick flicks... But still only a 24.6% drop overall for an estimated tally of $630million. I finally got to see it the other day and even though I'm pretty impressed that humans made this (!) I just don't get why it's done what it has done. I enjoyed the spectacle of the last hour but the first 2 dragged for me. I found myself saying: "I get it...they're connected to the damn trees...now stop bashing me over the head with it and get on with the movie already." 2/5  |  IP: Logged Paul Mayer Oh get out of it Melvin, before it pulls you under! Posts: 3836 From: Albuquerque, NM Registered: Feb 2000 posted 02-07-2010 02:58 PM                        I never did get to see it (couldn't even finagle a pass at the IMAX I occasionally help out at). Will have to settle for seeing it on Blu-ray some day.  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 02-09-2010 03:06 AM                     Avatar review part 1 Avatar review part 2  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 02-09-2010 01:47 PM                        I like that guy's reviews. He definitely hits the nail on the head.  |  IP: Logged John Wilson Film God Posts: 5438 From: Sydney, Australia. Registered: Dec 1999 posted 02-09-2010 01:56 PM                     His 'New Star Wars' ones are far better than these.  |  IP: Logged David Stambaugh Film God Posts: 4021 From: Eugene, Oregon Registered: Jan 2002 posted 02-14-2010 07:25 PM                        Not sure where to post this so it'll go here. Regal 15 in Eugene lost a packed 3D showing of Avatar today due to a projector or server malfunction, a little over 2 hours into the first show of the day. "The screen went haywire and the server dropped the show" is how an usher described it. They were handing out rainchecks to everyone. The scary thing is the next scheduled show was already sold out and had a long line of people waiting. NEC 2K projector, no idea what server.  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 02-14-2010 07:38 PM                        If there is a screw up, full refunds (and a pass) should always be given, even if the movie is near the end.  |  IP: Logged John Wilson Film God Posts: 5438 From: Sydney, Australia. Registered: Dec 1999 posted 02-14-2010 08:02 PM                     'AVATAR' hit the $100,000,000 mark here on Friday. For those not following the thread, it beat the previous record holder (TITANIC) a little while ago...that record was $57,000,000. Yes, another $14m and it's doubled 'TITANIC'.  |  IP: Logged Claude S. Ayakawa Film God Posts: 2738 From: Waipahu, Hawaii, USA Registered: Aug 2002 posted 02-14-2010 09:29 PM                        I had planned to see AVATAR in digital IMAX sometime during the past week but decided to hold off seeing it until this coming Wednesday when I will have to go to Honolulu to take care of some business matters and attend my local photographic society meeting in the evening. I should be done with my business stuff long before noon and in time to catch the first IMAX 3-D show at the Dole Cannery 18. My gut feeling tell me I will enjoy the movie very much based on what my friends have told me and all of the clips from the movie I had seen. Although I did watch the video clips Brad had posted, I did not pay any heed to them because the reviewer seem very sarcastic and not very credible in my humble opinion. This will be the first movie I will see in a theatre in a long time and I feel it will offer some relief from the sad event of last week my family and I had endured. -Claude  |  IP: Logged Chris Slycord Film God Posts: 2986 From: 청주시, 경북도, South Korea Registered: Mar 2007 posted 02-14-2010 09:42 PM                     You took that review completely seriously? The guy does comedic reviews.  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 02-14-2010 10:44 PM                     quote: David Stambaugh NEC 2K projector, no idea what server. It was most likely a GDC (God Damn Crap) server. Strong pushes that package really hard on their clients.  |  IP: Logged Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 02-14-2010 11:13 PM                     quote: Claude S. Ayakawa Although I did watch the video clips Brad had posted, I did not pay any heed to them because the reviewer seem very sarcastic and not very credible in my humble opinion. I thought those reviews were damned funny whether they were meant to be taken seriously or not. The two clips kept my interest for the roughly 17 minute length of them. Normally I can't stomach any YouTube video longer than perhaps a minute.  |  IP: Logged Stu Jamieson Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 524 From: Buccan, Qld, Australia Registered: Jan 2008 posted 02-15-2010 12:43 AM                     But as John said, not half as funny as his Phantom Menace review: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxKtZmQgxrI  |  IP: Logged Greg Anderson Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 766 From: Ogden Valley, Utah Registered: Nov 1999 posted 02-15-2010 10:44 AM                        His reviews are too long, contain poor acting and rely too much on special effects. They're also extremely derivative.  |  IP: Logged

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